delete your account

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delete your account is an encouragement to delete your (silo) account, e.g. 100DaysOfIndieWeb#More_100_days_projects related suggestion to do 100 days of deleting accounts.

Twitter

"Delete your account" as a phrase was significantly popularized by: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784 (in reference to deleting a Twitter account in particular)

2018-03-19 Delete your Facebook / The only way to win the social game is not to play summarily recommends deleting your Facebook account (and a few others in the closing paragraph) in response to their apparently very poor handling of private data.

The only thing we can do is delete Facebook. And Messenger, and Whatsapp [sic], and Instagram, and every app like them.

silo links added.

In 2018 March (around the same time), #DeleteFacebook was a trending hashtag on Twitter:

2018-03-20:

WhatsApp co-founder: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/976231995846963201
It is time. #deletefacebook
USA Today: WhatsApp co-founder urges people to delete Facebook
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $16 billion, on Tuesday urged people to delete their accounts on the giant social network.

"It's time," wrote Acton, who quit Facebook earlier this year to start a foundation. He added the hashtag #DeleteFacebook.